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September 9, 2008 |
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Story #1: Dem SWAT Team Will Pay for Palin Dirt in Alaska
RUSH: Now, as you know, I'm a powerful, influential member of the media -- and I, ladies and gentlemen, get advance notices of things that will soon be posted on reputable websites, such as John Fund and his Political Dairy at the Wall Street Journal website. This just went out, and is going to be posted soon. "Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan. The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women, a reversal of Mr. Obama's eight-point lead last month.
 "It's no surprise, then, that Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background." John Fund says, "My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29. The main area of interest to the Democratic SWAT team is Mrs. Palin's dismissal in July of her public safety commissioner." This is about the trooper business. This is something that everybody's been over and under and inside and out. They've got their arms around it every which way. There is nothing there. It is just pure desperation, and what these people are going to do, is they're going to go there and they're ostensibly going to find something they weren't looking for. It'll be big, big news -- and then the Drive-Bys, also part of the Obama SWAT team will be right there to amplify this.
My instincts tell me that all this effort, and no effort at the same time made to find out about Obama and Bill Ayers, Obama and Jeremiah Wright, Obama and Indonesia, Obama and Harvard Law? No effort whatsoever to find out anything Obama's done. What does a community organizer do? Who the hell was he organizing in the community? Who was he working for? ACORN? Was he helping to register people to vote multiple times illegally? No curiosity whatsoever. And here they're doing everything they can to destroy this woman who's taken this country by storm. And each time they've tried this over the course of this campaign, it has backfired. It's like a bag of manure right in front of them. They step in it. You can put it 45 degrees, you could put it 180 degrees out of the way, and they will still find it and step in it. That's been their pattern ever since they were discombobulated with her selection.
I imagine the way they are going to do this is just hang around at bars all over Alaska with big wads of cash, offering anybody money for stories. We just have to remind everybody here that no personal attack ever lowered the price of gasoline or added a point to the gross domestic product. And this is going to get dirty, 'cause the Democrats are desperate. Willie Brown is right; they're on defense. They didn't expect to be here. They have been blindsided. Every one of their shibboleths has come back to bite them. The first woman vice president will likely be a Republican. This is not going the way they all had it planned. It's just blown up on them, and they only know one thing in circumstances like this, and that is search-and-destroy. Clear the playing field.
Story #2: Scandal: Palin's Expenses as Governor Down 80%
RUSH: By the way, our buddies at RedState.com posted something very interesting. The Washington Post has a story today talking about how Governor Palin just ran up incredible, luxurious expenses as governor. A couple excerpts: Palin billed the state for most expenses allowed by law, include per diem when she stated in her own home. Her duty station was the state capital of Juneau. She didn't bill the state for other expenses when she could have done so lawfully, as per diems for her children and she spent a lot of less on expenses than did her predecessor." So no matter how they go after her, they find nothing. They find just the exact opposite of what they believe, they read on these kook fringe blogs. She spent 80% less! Her experiences were 80% lower than her predecessor's, and the Washington Post is trying to make a big stink out of this.
Story #3: Was Joe Biden Referring to Sarah Palin's Child?
RUSH: From a blog at CBSNews.com, Ryan Corsaro: "Was Joe Biden referring to Sarah Palin, a mother of a child with Down syndrome, when he made this comment? 'I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there's joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research?' Biden received a thunderous ovation when he made the remark at a town hall style meeting this morning in Columbia[, Missouri]. When asked for if this could be interpreted this as being about Palin, Biden’s press secretary, David Wade, issued this statement.
"'This is a clash of policies not a clash of personalities. We've heard not a dime's worth of difference between the McCain-Palin ticket and the Bush Administration on medical breakthroughs that millions of parents and doctors believe could save lives and transform the quality of life for countless Americans.'" So this is how they attack. I don't think Bush has stopped stem cell research. Bush is the only president that's authorized stem cell research, but beyond that there is all kinds of progress being made on other stem cells other than embryonic. It's another example of how the Drive-Bys and the Democrats are stuck in a narrative, stuck in a template and news that contradicts what they believe, doesn't know reach them -- or if it does, they ignore it because it doesn't fit the template.
Story #4: Dingy Harry Prepares to Blackball Joe Lieberman
RUSH: I'm just hearing from Roll Call magazine that Dingy Harry and the Democrats have now booted Joe Lieberman from the Democrat Party lunches, the weekly caucus lunch and the chairman's luncheons, where all these policies are formulated. Ha! Lieberman is gone.
Story #5: Hillary Backers Come to Defense of Sarah Palin
RUSH: Even though Sarah Palin has no victim type behavior at all in her life, they're turning her into a sympathetic character in certain people's eyes, and it's not just because you don't hit the girl. It's because it is so obvious what this is. This is not true investigative journalism trying to find out who this woman is so we all know. They know, the American people know there is a search-and-destroy mission underway, and it's just like Clarence Thomas, just like Robert Bork, the Democrat Party and the Drive-Bys have joined forces to take this woman out. Jonathan Martin writing in The Politico just about an hour ago: "The leaders of a women's political organization that launched earlier this year to support Hillary Clinton are speaking out against what they say are examples of media sexism toward Sarah Palin and urging members to tell the press corps 'to back off.' WomenCount, a group co-founded by top Hillary fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell, posted a lengthy item on their blog decrying questions over whether Palin can, as a mother of five, juggle her family responsibilities and still be vice president."
Story #6: Chris Matthews Demoted with Olberdork at PMSNBC
RUSH: This backlash is happening all over the country, and it's happening to all kinds of people, the backlash coming from various Obama factions and Democrat independent camps. And you saw what happened at the Republican convention when Palin started criticizing the media, what did the delegates start shouting? "NBC, NBC, NBC." I saw they took a camera shot of Bob Schieffer of CBS News when the crowd was shouting "NBC," and he was smiling. The NBC people are not smiling over this. The NBC people are not happy about it. You've heard about the demotions of Chris Matthews and Olberdorkk. By the way, Olberdorkk is out there now saying he asked for the demotion and he led the demotion. If that's true, Matthews got thrown under the bus as an innocent bystander. But that's not what happened. I can pretty much tell you, I don't know, but I mean I know, 'cause I know this industry, I think what happened is that Brokaw and Brian Williams went to Steve Capus or higher and said, "Look, these guys are killing us over here at the network. They're embarrassing us, I mean, we got a convention shouting NBC, NBC, when media unfairness is talked about?"
They didn't shout CBS; they didn't shout ABC; they didn't shout media, media. They shouted NBC. So you know, keep those people over there in the zoo, but make sure it's a zoo and that they don't get over here, because the party, the company of Brokaw, the company of Tim Russert, of John Chancellor, Brinkley, Huntley, it's just been destroyed here by true nutcases. And poor old Chris Matthews. I know he's in the tank and I know he gets tingling things up his legs when he sees Obama and so forth, but this poor guy's got a respectable Sunday morning show. Well, compared to MSNBC, it's respectable. I mean, it's a whole different format; he has a whole different behavioral pattern. But really the only guy that's giving this network any image problem is Olberdorkk. Poor Chris, I mean he's just been thrown under the bus. These two guys have been thrown off election anchor coverage. Now, this is also, by the way, also, ladies and gentlemen, they're still going to be there doing their analysis, it's just they're not going to be anchoring. These people at NBC think it's a big difference. Once you bring him in to analyze, let 'em launch, but don't have 'em launch from the anchor chair and so forth. But whoever -- well, I know who it is. The top dog over at MSNBC I think has been reined in here.
This guy's name is Phil Griffin, and they've obviously made a business decision to go hard left, blog left, you know, let the Daily Kos write the scripts and so forth and so on just to distinguish themselves. And they can talk about how their ratings are up and so forth, but they're still in dead last place, and everybody else's ratings are up more. I mean they're in dead last place every time there's a political event, and yet they're over there celebrating. I have never seen, in my days in media, and I've been in this business since I was 16, minus five years when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, I have never seen, ladies and gentlemen, the tolerance of mediocrity and failure that is permitted in media today. And we in media define our success in many ways -- ratings, revenue, all kinds of ways. There is no way that MSNBC can define itself as a success unless you want to say they make more people mad with genuine, irrational, insane stupidity every night than any network ever has. If that's the record you want, then they've achieved that. But in no circumstance, even if you start talking about cable audiences as niche, meaning we're going for a small segment but we want all of that segment, they can't even claim that. They can't even claim that because there are more freaks, more lunatics, more nuts, more absolute ignoramuses in the Democrat Party that are watching MSNBC at night. We know that by how many of them vote.
I've never seen the degree of failure that is tolerated and then promoted as success in media today in my life. There is a day where a network would be sold or a staff would be totally broomed and management would be brought in new. But these people think they're on some kind of a huge roll. They're in fourth place and they're staying in fourth place, everybody else is growing faster than they are. "Well, look at our demo, Rush." "Screw your demo. Okay, you've got 1% of a 2% demo, yippee! Nobody's watching!" And despite the fact that nobody is watching, NBC still thinks their image is getting hurt because they live in their own little world. And it probably was, to the extent, you know, Brokaw and these guys go on MSNBC to have to treat these lunatics as though they are serious political analysts and so forth. Never seen anything like it. It's not just at DNCTV. I've never seen this degree of failure, subpar performance, tolerated, much less promoted as success.
Story #7: Hurricane Ike Destroying Castro's Worker's Paradise
RUSH: So we're starting to get some footage out of Cuba regarding the damage brought by Hurricane Ike. Hurricane Ike is destroying parts of the Cuba. The eye of it got dangerously close to La Habana, and of course, you know, two-thirds of the building instruction in Havana -- which is the capital city -- is beneath worldwide standards, and they have had no money down there for the longest time. They've done no refurbishing, no restoration. Of course, the Drive-Bys and a lot of people are wringing their hands. "Oh, poor Cuba!"
Don't worry about it, folks. They've got the best health care system in the world. Jack Nicholson has told us this. Steven Spielberg has told us this. The Democrat Party, Charlie Rangel has told us. They have the best health care in the world. So it doesn't matter how many people are hurt and damaged, or get sick down there because the best health care system in the world will fix 'em right up! What really worries me is this hurricane's destroying the tobacco crop in the Vuelta al Bajo. The Vuelta al Bajo is the greatest tobacco-growing region in the world. God did it. The soil pH, the cloud cover, the rain, the temperature, humidity. It's just like the Bordeaux has been traditionally the best place for vintage wine.
Although I have to say the guys in the Dominican are making real strides against the Cubans because they've overworked the land since the Soviets went south on them and there's no $5 billion-a-year subsidy. I hear they're bringing it back a little bit now, but nevertheless, this is destroying the tobacco crop down there. I don't think where they are in their growing season now. But it's bad news all the way around. The track forecast now has it headed to Corpus Christi, but all the track models had it heading into Mexico. I just remember... What is this, Tuesday? So it was last Wednesday, was it last Wednesday, maybe Thursday, the track forecast had it hitting us here and then up in Jupiter, then they had it hitting Miami.
Story #8: Is the Little Pot-Bellied Dictator Gravely Ill?
RUSH: By the way, I don't know if you people have heard this, some of you may not care, Kim Jong ll, the pot-bellied dictator of North Korea, is said today to be ill, said to have had a stroke. I, ladies and gentlemen, think that there's something to it. I think he's terribly ill because Kim Jong ll never misses the gay pride parade, which is traditionally held in North Korea in Judy Garland memorial park in Pyongyang. He wasn't there. It's got to be bad.
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Story #9: Spengler: How Friendless Obama Lost the Election
RUSH: There is a piece from the Asian Times by a writer who calls himself Spengler. No first name. I seem to recall having read works of this author on previous occasions. This is from the Asian Times last week, and I've had it sitting over here in my stack 'cause it's long. I mean there is no way even I, with the talents I possess, could probably get away with reading this whole thing and capturing your  attention. The excerpts here are just to die for, though. This guy thinks Obama is going to lose because he has no character, he has no friends, all he has are people that he has used and stepped on as rungs of a ladder to get where he goes. He has no room for a real friendship because his angry wife, Michelle, crowds them all out. He was in Denver. "Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city's Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on television. Melancholy hung like thick smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers."
By the way, I had a guy out there who had a guy out there. I mean, my guy wasn't there, he had a guy out there, so I had a report coming in one person removed. And this guy was telling the same thing, and I'm watching it on TV, and I told my guy, "You get back to him. I cannot afford to receive a bunch of BS. The place looks electric to me. And if your guy is telling me that there's melancholy or no excitement, I want this double-checked." He said, "Okay, okay, okay," so he double-checked with his guy out there, "Yeah, I'm telling you, this guy says --" this is before Obama went on, Sheryl Crow was up and nobody was caring about anything, it was dull. TV had the ability to make it look like a lot of people were there and there was a lot of noise going on, but it really wasn't. And this guy Spengler said the same thing.
"Melancholy hung like thick smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers. The crowd, of course, cheered mechanically at the tag lines, flourished placards, and even rose for the obligatory wave around the stadium. But its mood was sour. The air carried the acrid smell of defeat, and the crowd took shallow breaths. Even the appearance of R&B great Stevie Wonder failed to get the blood pumping. The speech itself dragged on for three-quarters of an hour. As David S. Broder wrote in the Washington Post: '[Obama's] recital of a long list of domestic promises could have been delivered by any Democratic nominee from Walter Mondale to John Kerry. There was no theme music to the speech and really no phrase or sentence that is likely to linger in the memory of any listener. The thing I never expected did in fact occur: Al Gore, the famously wooden former vice president, gave a more lively and convincing speech than Obama did.' On television, Obama's spectacle might have looked like The Ten Commandments, but inside the stadium it felt like Night of the Living Dead.
"The longer the candidate spoke, and the more money he promised to spend ... the lower the party professionals slouched into their seats. The professionals I sat with were Hillary Clinton people, to be sure, and had reason to sulk, for an Obama victory might do them little good in any event. ... Speaking to Obama supporters on the periphery of the big event, I was startled by the rapturous devotion elicited by the junior senator from Illinois. He is no symbol for identity politics, no sacrifice on the altar of white guilt, but the most gifted persuader of individuals that I have encountered in any country's politics, as well as a powerful orator on the grand stage. This is not a crowd phenomenon nor a fad, but the response of hundreds of people to an individual." He goes on to describe some of these people, but then says, "Gandalf's warnings about the irresistible voice of the wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings come to mind. If these battle-hardened veterans of America's wars fell so easily under the spell of Obama's voice, who can withstand it? ... Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why he rejected the obvious road to victory, that is, choosing Hillary Clinton ... rejecting Clinton in favor of the colorless, unpopular, tangle-tongued Washington perennial Joe Biden was a statement of weakness. McCain's selection was a statement of strength. America's voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct, but they will not forgive weakness. That is why McCain will win in November, and by a landslide, barring some unforeseen event.
"Obama is the most talented and persuasive politician of his generation, the intellectual superior of all his competitors, but a fatally insecure personality. American voters are not intellectual, but they are shrewd, like animals. They can smell insecurity, and the convention stank of it. Obama's prospective defeat is entirely of its own making. No one is more surprised than Republican strategists, who were convinced just weeks ago that a weakening economy ensured a Democratic victory. Biden, who won 3% of the popular vote in the Democratic presidential primary in his home state of Delaware, and 1% or less in every other contest he entered, is ballot-box poison. Obama evidently chose him to assuage critics who point to his lack of foreign policy credentials. That was a deadly error, for by appearing to concede the critics' claim that he knows little about foreign policy, Obama raised questions about whether he is qualified to be president in the first place. ... Why didn't Obama choose Hillary? The most credible explanation came from veteran columnist Robert Novak May 10, who reports that Michelle Obama vetoed Hillary's candidacy. 'The Democratic front-runner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility,' Novak wrote.
"If that is true, then Obama succumbed to the character weakness I described in a February 26 profile of (Obama's women reveal his secret). His peculiar dependency on an assertive and often rancorous spouse, I argued, made him vulnerable, and predicted that Obama 'will destroy himself before he destroys the country'. ... Curiously, Obama ignored the rising stars of his own party, offering the prime time speaking slots to familiar faces, including Senator Edward Kennedy and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as his own wife, the first prospective First Lady to take the keynote spot in the history of American party conventions. McCain doesn't have a tenth of Obama's synaptic fire-power, but he is a nasty old sailor who knows when to come about for a broadside."
So let me get to the conclusion of this. "Combine a child's response to serial abandonment with the perspective of an outsider, and Obama became an alien species against which American politics had no natural defenses. He is a Third World anthropologist profiling Americans, in but not of the American system. No country's politics depends more openly on friendships than America's, yet Obama has not a single real friend, for he rose so fast that all his acquaintances become rungs on the ladder of his ascent. One human relationship crowds the others out of his life, his marriage to Michelle, a strong, assertive and very angry woman. If Novak's report is accurate, then Michelle's anger will have lost the election for Obama, as Achilles' anger nearly killed the Greek cause in the Trojan War. But the responsibility rests not with Michelle, but with Obama.
"Obama's failure of nerve at the cusp of his success is consistent with my profile of the candidate, in which I predicted that he would self-destruct. It's happening faster than I expected. As I wrote last February: 'It is conceivable that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country. Hatred is a toxic diet even for someone with as strong a stomach as Obama ... Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for. As the horrible example of Obama's father shows, there is nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within than to achieve his goals.' By all rights, the Democrats should win this election. They will lose, I predict, because of the flawed character of their candidate," Barack Obama. A guy named Spengler in the Asian Times last week sometime. We'll link to it. I just read you some excerpts there, probably didn't even get to 25% of it.
Story #10: Global Warming Guru Admits It's All a Big Con
RUSH: Global warming news. The guy who runs Australia, Kevin Rudd, his global warming guru has reluctantly exposed the whole con of manmade global warming. He basically said ignore everything the government has told you. Professor Ross Garnaut conceded last week, "that the truth is that it really is cheaper for Australians to do nothing about global warming. And, no, it's not immoral to figure there's no point spending big money to 'stop' this warming when it won't make a blind bit of difference." Now, this Kevin Rudd guy was going to sign Kyoto 'til he actually found out what it was, but he's a huge global warming guy. He went to that stupid thing they had in Bali, The UN Council on Global Warming. So his global warming guru said, "This is a con. We can't stop it no matter how much we spend. It would be cheaper for us to do nothing."
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